Jeff Luhnow, the Houston Astros? general manager, with Jon Jay, left, and Daniel Descalso of the Cardinals in 2013. Credit Julio Cortez/Associated Press

WASHINGTON ? The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors are investigating whether front-office officials for the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the most successful teams in baseball over the past two decades, hacked into internal networks of a rival team to steal closely guarded information about player personnel.
Investigators have uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials broke into a network of the Houston Astros that housed special databases the team had built, according to law enforcement officials. Internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports were compromised, the officials said.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sp...stros-fbi.html